IG NOBEL WINNERS: SeveralIg Nobel Prize-winners
gave five-minute talks/demonstrations and took questions. Among them: Chris
McManus, David Gadian, Pek Van Andel, Harold Hillman, Karl Schwartzler and
Kees Moeliker. (See below for a brief description
of what each did to win an Ig; for more detail, click here.)

David
Gadian uses hand-waving to describe the brains of London taxi drivers.

ORGANIZERS: Alasdair Kergon, Paula Wallace, Nona Ahmat

Lucia
Singer, the winner of the Limerick Contest, both at the Oxford show
and, eventually, in the tour-wide contest. Thanks to the Times Higher
Education Supplement, she received a free trip for two to the Ig Nobel
Prize Ceremony at Harvard on September 30.

PHOTOS: The photographs shown here were taken by Ig Nobel
winner Kees Moeliker

Chris
McManus demonstrates how balls hang, and explains why the ancient
Greeks were misled by certain aspects of this phenomenon.